Alasdair McKenzie > Gowling WLG > London, England > Lawyer Profile

Alasdair McKenzie

+44 (0)20 3636 7814 alasdair.mckenzie@gowlingwlg.com

Work Department

Energy; Tech; Banking & Finance; Private Equity; Real Estate Finance

Position

Partner

Career

Alasdair McKenzie has broad experience, having advised a range of private and listed corporates, private equity funds and financial institutions on a variety of domestic and international debt products including bilateral and syndicated facilities, leveraged and acquisition finance, unitranche structures, early stage debt (especially in FinTech) and commercial real estate loans. This breadth of experience affords him the ability to understand how to cut through complex issues and focus on the key drivers behind a transaction.

Alasdair is an active member of the firm’s Tech sector group, working with start-ups (and their investors / angels) right through to more established and well known TMT focused corporates, with particular expertise in P2P, cyber security, media and FinTech.

Stemming from time spent living abroad, travels and an interest in global commerce, Alasdair also supports the firm’s advisory offering in EMEA, in particular advising sponsors, financiers and corporates on general lending, trade finance, credit enhancement, acquisition finance and project specific mandates.

Above all Alasdair prides himself on being an outgoing and engaging individual, with a strong work ethic but also a keen sense of humour.

Experience

Advising an international financial institution in respect of loan facilities advanced to an international data analysis business seeking to fund research and development of new product lines.

Ongoing advice to a leading UK-based P2P platform in relation to its capital and debt funding requirements.

Advising an international financial institution in respect of loan facilities being advanced to an AIM-listed international corporate to part finance, amongst other things and along with the proceeds of an additional capital raise, the acquisition of a complementary international business in the manufacturing sector.

Advising an AIM-listed international corporate on the debt financing aspects of its acquisition of a listed international competitor in the collectibles/retail market

Ongoing advice to a European private equity house in relation to its leveraged finance arrangements regarding a number of its portfolio companies in the health sector, located around the globe.

Advising an international venture capital fund on its repurchase of assets from a portfolio company operating in the FinTech space.

Advising a European corporate in relation to its financing of the acquisition of a portfolio of commercial real estate units across Europe.

Languages

English